Tags: Google, malware, Mozilla, Mozilla Firefox, update

Firefox 3.0 alpha 8 released with new security features

Mozilla foundation has released the latest alpha version of their upcoming Firefox 3 web browser.

Firefox 3 is in alpha 8 version now and it comes with some of the new security features they have been promising since quite sometime.

The latest alpha release comes with built-in anti-malware warnings and protection against rogue extension updates.

The anti malware component in this release has been designed to block Web sites thought to contain malicious downloads.

It would be using information supplied by Google. Mozilla added about the other new features in this update: “Firefox automatically checks for updates to add-ons using a URL specified in the add-on’s install manifest. Currently there are no requirements placed on these URLs. In particular, [they are not] required to be https. This allows either the update manifest or the update package to be compromised, potentially resulting in the injection of malicious updates. A demonstration of one form of compromise is already public.”

Checkout: Firefox 3 alpha 8